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Unusual cases of faked artifacts

The History Channel said that Fort Knox temporarily housed the original signed Declaration of Independence and other unique documents during WWII to protect them from sabotage. They were replaced in the Archives Building with realistic fakes that were passed off as the real thing to tourists. Does anyone know of similar high-profile fakes to protect originals?

Re: Unusual cases of faked artifacts

Does anyone know if many of the jerseys that the baseball HOF takes on their travelling displays are faked or just replicas that they take for display purposes? Looked at them at the all star fanfest and some of them are not even close.

Re: Unusual cases of faked artifacts

Originally Posted by jppopma

Does anyone know if many of the jerseys that the baseball HOF takes on their travelling displays are faked or just replicas that they take for display purposes? Looked at them at the all star fanfest and some of them are not even close.

Re: Unusual cases of faked artifacts

Originally Posted by David

Not exactly the same, but the British Museum had on display ancient Greek artifacts, and the later figured out they were forgeries... by the Ancient Romans.

Do you have a link to the story? I am curious, because the ancient Romans were often known to appropriate Greek art for their purposes (enjoyment, etc.). I've never heard the term "forgery" applied to this practice, so I'm wondering if something altogether different than what I'm familiar with went on here.